James Le Cuirot <chewi <at> aura-online.co.uk> writes: > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:26:33 +0000 (UTC) > shy_reclusive_alsa_user <ymail_user <at> ymail.com> wrote: > > > speaker-test --channels 8 (blah, blah...) > > I've only posted to this list once but I have a suggestion for you. > What is this blah blah stuff? ;) You need to specify the device name > when doing surround. For 8 channels, I guess you want -Dsurround71. Thank you, James. Very kind of you to respond to my post. I will try your suggestion. I figured it had to be something _simple_ I was overlooking. The "blah blah" stuff is because I'm not sitting in front of the box right now. Sorry about that; not trying to be a smartass. I know it's frowned upon to post and not provide relevant details. ;) For the speaker-test runs I was using something like: speaker-test --device hw0 --channels 8 --rate 48000 --test sine --frequency 180 for the actual hardware device, but its sounds like I need to go through some kind of ALSA plugin which will enable multi-channel access? It had occurred to me that I might need to do something special somehow using some kind of "surround" syntax or something, but I think I must have been trying to access the hardware device directly which it sounds like are telling me is incorrect. For example, to listen on xmms I need to manually configure the ALSA driver to use "plughw0" (or something like that) for the two front channels. It sounds to me like you are telling me I need to try something like "plugsurround71" in that case? Many thanks! > > Regards, > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
